After the Supreme Court's decision, the former master's sons purchased Scott and his wife and set them free. Dred Scott died nine months later.

Twitted on all sides for his wife’s ownership of slaves, Chaffee soon fixed up a technical transfer of the Dred Scott family to his wife’s New York brother, John Sandford, who thus became the ...

Dred Scott, an enslaved man who lost his bid for freedom, will be honored with a new memorial monument at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis on Saturday. In 1846, Scott and his wife, Harriet ...

The 1857 Dred Scott v Sandford decision came after Dred Scott, an enslaved Black man, sued for his freedom alongside his wife Harriet in St Louis Circuit Court in 1846. They argued that they were ...

A descendant of the couple who sued in the Dred Scott decision spoke to attendees ... Jackson wants all to know about the man and his wife who legally fought for the citizenship they believed ...

According to archives.gov: “In 1846, an enslaved Black man named Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, sued for their freedom in St. Louis Circuit Court. They claimed that they were free due to ...

Dred Scott's great-great-great granddaughter says ... Previously, the foundation partnered on a project to bring a statue of Scott and his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, to downtown St. Louis.

Dred and Harriet Scott were enslaved people who initially ... According to the Missouri State Archives, after Chaffee discovered his wife owned slaves, he made an effort to emancipate the Scotts ...

“We should all be embarrassed by the existence of anyone reaching back to the history of slavery and coming up with the Dred Scott decision and dragging it into the conversation,” Dr. Mary ...

in an obituary of the late Chief-Justice TANEY, states that SCOTT, by the decision of the court, lost his freedom by being ... consequently, DRED, at Fort Snelling, being in the limit of that ...

After an extensive renovation, the Old Courthouse, site of the landmark legal cases of Dred Scott, his wife Harriett and other enslaved people, reopened to the public on Saturday May 3 ...